The Roundup (film series)

Detective Ma Seok-do and his team tries to catch a notorious crime lord named Jang Chen, from Harbin, China who is willing to commit crimes for money and comes to Garibong-dong to collect debts.[1]

With 6.87 million admissions and a gross of US$51.8 million, the film became the 5th highest-grossing domestic film of the year in South Korea and the third best-selling R-rated Korean film of all time.[2]

Ma Seok-do and his team arrive at Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam to interrogate a suspect, but later learns about Kang Hae-sang, a vicious killer, who has been committing crimes against Korean tourists for several years and decide to hunt him down.[3]

The Roundup is directed by Lee Sang-yong who served as an assistant director in the first film. Unlike the previous film which was rated for "restricted screening" by KMRB, The Roundup was rated for "audiences 15 and over".

The film became commercially successful beyond expectations, grossing over ₩130 billion with a ₩10.5 billion budget, and was dubbed as the highest performing South Korean film since COVID-19 pandemic.[4] It opened with a record of 467,525 admissions, the highest opening for a film released in South Korea in the last 882 days since Ashfall (2019).[5] It registered 10 million viewers on 25th day, becoming the first film of the year 2022 and first Korean film since Parasite (2019) to achieve the feat.[6] Surpassing US$100 million gross and 12.6 million admissions, The Roundup became 9th most-viewed and 3rd highest-grossing South Korean film in the history.[7]

Ma Seok-do and his team are promoted to Metropolitian Investigation Unit where they battles against Riki, a yakuza and a dirty cop named Joo-seong cheol, who are involved in the manufacture and distribution of a newly-invented drug called "Hiper" which is becoming popular at the clubs around Seoul.[8]

Ma Seok-do joins the Cyber Investigation Team to catch Baek Chang-ghi, a former mercenary and the leader of the most notorious illegal online gambling organization.[9]